Force New Outlook Profile

I am beginning a plan for a Exchange migration from a totally different Exchange/AD infrastructure to a new environment.

The Exchange system is sitting in the cloud and it will be migrated to a local AD (Exchange and Clients in the same Network/AD)

My question is this...

Outlook profiles are now configured for the cloud exchange environment.

How can I force outlook to bypass the local profile that is setup now and create a new profile using the new local exchange environment?


  • Edited by Super0ne1 Thursday, December 19, 2013 4:38 PM
December 19th, 2013 7:37pm

Hi

are you wanting to automate this process? If you manually setup the new outlook profile you can set that as default from the control panel.

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December 20th, 2013 7:21am

I've not tried this myself, but you may be able to use a .PRF file to bring about the changes you need.

Office Customization Tool (OCT) reference for Office 2013
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc179097.aspx#Outlook

Customize Outlook profiles by using an Outlook Profile (PRF) file
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc179062(v=office.14).aspx#BKMK_AppylingPRF

December 20th, 2013 8:01am

Hi,

Firstly, Id like to explain,  Outlook profiles for users are automatically updated by Autodiscover after we move users mailboxes.  Thus, administrators do not have to manually reconfigure Outlook profiles or resynchronize .OST files

If we want to create a new profile, we use the control panel as DareDevil suggested:

Control panel> mail>new profile

If we want to update Microsoft Outlook profile information, we can use PRF file or Office Customization Tool (OCT).

For more information, you can refer to the following article:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc178945(v=office.12).aspx

Best regards,

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December 20th, 2013 11:46am

This may be of some use?
http://blogs.technet.com/b/outlooking/archive/2011/11/15/how-to-deploy-a-prf-file-in-your-organization-using-a-vbs-file-logon-script.aspx
December 23rd, 2013 11:07pm

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